Page 42 of Love & Monsters
“Oh, god,” she mumbled under her breath. In the next instant, she was pushing off my lap and scurrying away. Frozen in my seat, I watched Mina slip through the tables and out the door to the great hall.
“You better go after your pet,” Ilya mused, rubbing a hand over her swollen belly, ready to burst any day now. “Anyone in the castle who didn’t see the little show you just put on might get ideas.”
I snarled at Ilya in response. My claws dug into the carved armrests of my seat, leaving deep grooves in the wood. Ilya simply rolled her eyes with obvious annoyance.
However, she was right. I couldn’t allow Mina to run around unaccompanied in the fortress just yet. Tonight’s act wasn’t enough to stop one brave soul from taking advantage of her.
And my blood was still boiling for her. I yearned to feel Mina’s body against mine. I longed to feel her quivering with pleasure underneath me as I filled her.
Pushing up from my seat, I glared at any wandering eyes looking after the door where Mina vanished. I stalked after her, hunting my little prey through the darkened corridors. With her heady, alluring scent in the air, it didn’t take me long to track her down, aided by my primal instincts urging me to find her and take her in every way imaginable.
Twenty-Four
Every cell in my body was overheating. I had the overwhelming urge to toss myself into a bucket of ice-cold water. If I had one available, I’d do just that.
What was happening to me? How had I become such a lustful creature with Vadric to where I’d enjoyed him groping me in the crowded great hall?
It hadn’t mattered that so many monstrous eyes watched me, coveting me from their Lord, or dreaming of devouring me. All that mattered in those moments was the feverish heat of Vadric’s touch on my eager flesh. I desired to be touched by him, filled my him.
Fuck me, even hurt by him.
Am I really surviving in this world of monsters by becoming a pet to a demon? Sometimes I feel as though my inner self is shutting down. To protect myself, my thoughts and feelings are becoming inaccessible. Even to me.
What am I really feeling and thinking right now?
“I don’t even know where I am!” Stomping my foot, I huffed. I brushed my hair back from my face and took in the dark corridors of the fortress. This could be the way back to that dressing room, but I couldn’t be sure when it all looked the same and Vadric wasn’t here to guide me.
Wherever I was going didn’t matter. As long as I got far away from all the monsters in that room. The pressure rising between me and Vadric had almost made me cross a line.
His tail had been so close to slipping inside of me. Even if the table hid that from view, I would have known. I’m certain it wouldn’t have been difficult for a keen eye to realize what was happening.
Damn my traitorous body for being so willing to allow that moment to get as far as it had. I was still breathing hard with flushed skin as I raced into the shadows. Each step further away from Vadric, I yearned to go back.
The heat of his muscled body under my bottom had driven me wild. Part of me wished I was still sitting in his lap right now. Lifting my dress and allowing him to slide his thick, ridged cock inside of me so I could ride him until my legs gave out.
His growls and his commands during our act shouldn’t have made me feel this damn aroused. Vadric’s claws digging almost painfully into my skin stimulated something in the back of my mind I never knew was there. It was time I faced reality and admitted to myself that I enjoyed the pleasure with the pain.
Then why did I run from him now? Why had I fled the great hall? It wasn’t to escape him. I knew that much.
Perhaps the overwhelming unease of so many monsters watching as I ground my ass on Vadric’s lap affected me. That seemed the most likely answer in my mind. I wanted Vadric to touch me, taste me, and consume every part of me. That didn’t mean I wanted an audience while it happened.
Hidden in an unlit hallway, I found an alcove. There was a cushioned bench built into the stone wall under the window. Curling my leg under me, I sat sideways on the bench. I pressed my cheek against the cool glass and frowned at the red world outside.
This part of the castle looked out over the steep drop at the back of the mountain. I caught sight of guards roaming through the trees below as red light shone down on them.
A shift in the air made the hair on the back of my neck stand on end. I stopped breathing entirely when I physically felt his presence, despite not seeing or touching him.
“Mina,” Vadric growled. The sound of his husky, strained voice caressed my senses like the longing touch of a lover.
I pushed up from the bench, whirling to face him. The air caught in my throat when I saw the hungry, predatory snarl etched into his features. His shoulders steadily rose and fell with each slow and shuddered breath he took.
Vadric hunched forward, like a stalking cat readying to pounce. When he took a step forward, my body automatically took one back. My legs hit the bench, leaving me nowhere to go.
I didn’t want to get away from him, though. Blinking slowly, I assessed the situation we were in and the wild tumultuous energy stirring in my blood that the sight of him evoked in me.
Iwasthe prey. I wanted to behisprey.
An uncontrollable, unbridled instinct roared through the back of my mind. All my rational thoughts slipped unchecked from my grasp. I let them go as a frantic and delirious desire flared within me.
